Prolonged struggles

Usage examples of conflicts.

The other conflicts in the story stem from this source, as we will see in more detail in the chapters on conflict.

To this are added many more minor conflicts and one overriding major conflict.

Out of his interior conflict stem all the other conflicts of the story.

The two conflicts also conflict with each other, placing the protagonist on the horns of an impossible dilemma.

New writers should plot their stories around main characters and their conflicts, not around a trick ending.

If you know your characters and their conflicts, you should let them write the story for you.

Conversely, it shows which characters are not interacting with one another, thereby suggesting ways to bring new interactions, new relationships, new conflicts into the novel.

That is, take the two people concerned and find out what their internal emotional conflicts were.

In fact, we shall see that the conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics is actually not the first, but the third in a sequence of pivotal conflicts encountered during the past century, each of whose resolution has resulted in a stunning revision of our understanding of the universe.

We cannot use this approximation when dealing with short-distance or high-energy processes because we know that the extended nature of the string is crucial to its ability to resolve the conflicts between general relativity and quantum mechanics that a point-particle theory cannot.

On the whole he found the question of the Princess troublesome, but seeing her with Roland made him forget his internal conflicts over her, as a less intellectual, more basic emotion came to the fore.

He did not want to be on bad terms with Carline, regardless of any conflicts he might be feeling.

After much risk and many conflicts he was safe with family and friends, with a great adventure, the building of the academy, yet to come.

We are continually being urged by our training and traditions to antagonisms and conflicts that will impoverish, starve, and destroy both our antagonists and ourselves.

Its main theme is the growth of human intercommunication and human communities and their rulers and conflicts, the story of how and why the myriads of little tribal systems of ten thousand years ago have fought and coalesced into the sixty- or seventy-odd governments of to-day and are now straining and labouring in the grip of forces that must presently accomplish their final unison.